1.	Tournament will be played in Amsterdam (Holland) from 12th till 19th  of October 2003.
Opening 12th of October at 10.oo, Closing 19th of October at 16.oo
2.	The tournament is only for players born on 31st of December 1953 or BEFORE !
3.	The condition of participation is to send EDC application till 25th of August 2003. 
APPLICATIONS ONLY VIA FEDERATIONS ! 
4.	There is no limits in applications from one federation!
5.	Entrance fee is 40ˆ. 
6.	Time control is 2h on 50 moves + 1h on the rest of the game.
7.	Tournament will be played in 9 round swiss system on rating (in case of large number of participants, main referee, in consultation with EDC and organisator, will have ability to increase number of rounds, but in any case amount of rounds won't be more than 3 rounds in two successive days).
8.	In settling places decides FMJD rules applying to swiss system tournaments  (barrages will not be played!).
9.	The participants will play in the Activiteiten Centrum Ganzenhoef, Geldershoofd 80 phone +31 20 6995121 or +31 0614710196
10.	Organizers secure full board and stay costs for one competitor from each federation. Other players have to pay all stay costs independently. 
Hospitality information from organising committee:
Playing place: Activiteiten Centrum Ganzenhoef 
Adres playing place: Geldershoofd 80
Telephone number: 020 - 6995121 or 06 147 101 96
When players arrive at the airport Amsterdam, than they can travel to Amsterdam Central Station with the train. From Amsterdam Central Station they take the Metro number 53 to Ganzenhoef.
For any question they can cal me 020-6995121 or 06 147 101 96 or they can send me an e-mail.
One player from each country has free housing. Other player pay 30 euro for the whole week. They will stay in a house with more players. If there are players who like to go to a hotel, than the price of the hotel is about 90 euro for two persons for one day. 

THE STATEMENT
to all National draughts federations, members of the FMJD
   First of all I want to express my gratitude to the national federations for 
choosing me as the President of the FMJD. 
   It is widely known that the normal holding of the General Assembly of the 
FMJD on May, 17-18, 2003 has been complicated by some irregularities initialised
by serious mistakes of the former management of the FMJD. 
   Concerning the opinion of each member of the FMJD, I think nevertheless that 
only the way to pass through any crisis is the respect to the legal will of the 
majority of delegates of leading draughts federations of the world.
   According to decision of the GA we need to have the new Extraordinary General
Assembly. On this Assembly the questions of structure should be solved, changes 
are brought into the Statutes of the FMJD, the vacancies in the Managing Board 
to be filled in and all the questions of the agenda from the list prepared for 
Zwartsluis have to be solved. 
   Therefore we invite all of you to the Extraordinary GA. We suppose to have it
in Kiev (Ukraine) on August, 9-10, 2003. 
   I invite all national federations to start right now actively the preparation
of the GA and to send your offers for publication on website of the FMJD. 
   I wrote in the electoral programme which has been handed over to all delegates
of the GA, what kind of FMJD reformation I intend to do. There were also stated 
about the guarantees of the government of Ukraine and NOC of Ukraine about their 
support of me, in case of election as the president.
   Promises of the Government of Ukraine about the help to me as to the President, 
are already being realised, and I will try to do everything to lift the draughts 
sport on a high level of development. 

   Yours faithfully and hoping to the joint fruitful work
President FMJD I.F.Shovkoplyas

   Results:
 1 Kees Thijssen 23
 2 Ron Heusdens 21
 3 Gerard Jansen 20
 4 Erno Prosman 19
 5 Rob Clerc 19
 6 Auke Scholma 15
 - Jeroen van den Akker 15
 - Martin Dolfing 15
 - Bas Messemaker 15
10 Sven Winkel 14 
11 Jan Ekke de Vries 13 
12 Johan Wiering 12 
13 Alex Mathijsen 10 
14 Cor van Dusseldorp 9 
Table - http://www.amsterdammen2003.nl/stand.htm
Games - http://www.amsterdammen2003.nl/partijen.htm

  2nd set results:
1-1, 1-1, 0-2, 1-1
  3rd set results:
1-1, 2-0, 2-0, 1-1
T.Tansykkuzhina - World Champion!

Moves are in www.fmsr.ru

9-30 march 2003,  international draughts match for world title. 
A.Chizhov - A.Georgiev, 
look at http://wk03.udm.ru
Moves: http://wk03.udm.ru/games_eng.htm
Current results:
   1st set: 1-1, 1-1, 1-1, additional games - 1-1, 1-1, 1-1, 0-2.
   2nd set: 1-1, 1-1, 1-1, additional games - A.Georgiev won in 14th game!
   3rd set: 1-1, 1-1, 1-1  additional games - A.Chizhov won in 6th game (Moves)
   4th set: 1-1, 1-1, 1-1  additional games - A.Georgiev won in 1st game and won the title of World Champion!
   5th set: 1-1, 1-1, 0-2
Sets' results :  A.Chizhov 1 - 4 A.Georgiev

Alexander Georgiev - NEW WORLD CHAMPION !!!

Look at FMJD site. There are new 100-draughts ratings.

Tournament will take place in Cannes (France) from 9th (arriving day) till 16th of March
Players list (in order of rating):
 1. gmi Ygal KOYFMAN Israel 2402
 2. gmi Rob CLERC Holland 2392
 3. mi Arnaud CORDIER France 2365
 4. gmi Auke SCHOLMA Holland 2345
 5. Mark PODOLSKI Germany 2334
 6. mi Walter RAIMONDI Italy 2302
 7. gmi Igror KIRZNER Ukraine 2302
 8. Thierry DELMOTTE France 2251
 9. Laurent NICAULT France 2244
10. mf Piotr CHMIEL Poland 2241
11. Marc DE MEULENAERE Belgium 2195
12. Inderek PEENMAA Estonia 2173
13. mi Vaclav KRISTA Czech Republic 2157
14. Vachagan MURADYAN Armenia 2150

   18-19 January in Moscow will be Open Russian Computers' Championship (russian
draughts). There are 5 programs in tournament:
1. "Tornado", M.Glizerin, Ioshkar-Ola, Russia
2. "WinRuss", J-B.Alemanni, J.Guimaraies, France-Brazil
3. "Plus600", S.Starcev, Moscow, Russia
4. "Tundra", A.Shevchenko, V.Kamynin, Moscow, Russia
5. "Grandmaster Agafonov", S.Bobrovsky, V.Agafonov, L.Agafonova, Moscow, Russia
Main arbiter - V.Sidelnikov (Moscow)
Main secratary - V.Tishkin (Moscow)